Nickles asks council to hold off on revising gun rules

An attempt to redraft D.C.’s gun laws in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling misfired Wednesday when Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration boycotted a council hearing and asked a councilman via letter to put the legislation on hold.

The council’s Judiciary Committee took up a bill that proponents say would comply with the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in D.C. v. Heller, which struck down D.C.’s ban on handguns, while still protecting residents from dangerous weapons. But neither acting Attorney General Peter Nickles nor anyone else from his office attended Wednesday’s hearing.